2011-03-10, 20:39 | Link #84 | |
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Breaking the Cutie is this entire show's MO. Mami was just playing her part. The other thing to consider is Mami has been an MG years, and has only become attached to the happy and fluffy aspects of her job. Suddenly finding out she's a bastardization of nature and she's doomed to become the thing she's devoted her life to fighting has to be absolutely earth-shattering to her. In her mind, her attempted massacre was justified because she was protecting her younger colleagues from having the same curse as her. |
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2011-03-10, 21:09 | Link #86 | |
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I just realized this means Mami and Kyoko came up with same solution, just at different times and in radically different ways. |
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2011-03-10, 21:11 | Link #87 |
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Logical? I think not. She doesnt even ask if there is a way to prevent it. She just straight up murders kyoko 13 seconds after the battle is over. The logical thing would have been to finally listen to everything that homura has to say instead of jumping the gun.
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2011-03-10, 21:14 | Link #89 | |
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What exactly would Homura have to say at that point that would be any more comforting for Mami? |
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2011-03-10, 21:26 | Link #90 | ||
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And I know some of you are big on the "well its for the greater good" thing, you're starting to sound like a certain four legged creature that eats its remains. Kyoko's life was not for Mami's to take. Kyoko should have been the one to decide what to do with her life on her terms...which she did in episode 9. |
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2011-03-10, 21:38 | Link #92 | |
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Kyubey wants them to suffer and despair and commit senseless atrocities to further his goals. Mami was trying to give them an easy way out while they were still relatively blissful. And it's for a completely different greater good. Kyubey's ideology is for the greater good for his unsympathetic asshole alien race. Mami's ideology was for the greater good of the girls she was trying to protect. |
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2011-03-10, 21:52 | Link #93 | |
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2011-03-10, 22:24 | Link #94 |
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Okay, let me try to put this into perspective:
You're seriously equating the premeditated actions of a highly intelligent alien being who doesn't give a crap about humanity even at large (as shown in the last timeline Homura went through) to an impulsive choice made by a young girl who just found out her entire existence was a lie and only wanted to protect her very human friends. The irony of your argument is you're saying Mami would have been a better character if she took the Kyubey approach and remained awkwardly emotionless after seeing Sayaka turn into a Witch. |
2011-03-10, 22:35 | Link #95 |
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Okay, let me ask you a question. If you were in Kyokos postion would you want to get killed without having time to gather your thoughts. Even madoka knew mami was being irrational. If I was a close friend to kyoko, Id be pretty pissed at wat she just did.
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2011-03-11, 03:11 | Link #96 | |
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For me, it also definitely shows that dying a hero, in ignorant bliss of how magical girls can become witches, is the best possible fate for Magical Girl Mami. Edit: I will add, though, that part of the added issue with Mami might be intense immediate guilt over being the person who helped lead Madoka and Sayaka into becoming magical girls. If this was just affecting Mami and Kyoko, maybe she'd take it a bit better.
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2011-03-11, 12:48 | Link #98 | |
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2011-03-11, 13:35 | Link #99 |
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Well sad to see Mami come back only to go out like that. Someone I guess had to snap in that situation to prevent them all fighting in the major battle. Kyoko was too upset about Sayaka, Madoka was frozen up, and Homura didn't really care since it wasn't Madoka.
On the other hand Mami in some ways helped to get them into this fight and now finds out the truth. In some cases what they were doing was fighting girls the same as themselves. Their great struggle was just part of QB's plot. Don't think it's unbelievable for the serious strain of that to make her lose it and think the only way to save them from that fate is to destroy the soul gems.
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2011-03-11, 13:37 | Link #100 |
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I felt great pity for Mami. She was obviously tormented by the fact that all they would either die or end up like witches. It did snap for her, but now she is also responsible for Madoka and Sayaka's fate in this mess. She probably went mad with grief after finding that out, and we all know what happens after that. I guess she did too. She even said it herself, that all of them had to die. She wasn't going to spare herself.
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